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    The border between Samaria and Judea is set at the latitude of Ramallah. The name "Samaria" is derived from the ancient city of Samaria, capital of the northern...
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    romanized: Ioudaía [i.uˈdɛ.a]) was a Roman province from 6 to 132 AD, which incorporated the Levantine regions of Idumea, Philistia, Judea, Samaria, and Galilee...
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    limits of Samaria and Judea lies the village Anuath, which is also named Borceos. This is the northern boundary of Judea. The southern parts of Judea, if they...
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    namesake of Samaria, a historical region bounded by Judea to the south and by Galilee to the north. After the Assyrian conquest of Israel, Samaria was annexed...
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    independent college. On 17 July 2012, the Council for Higher Education in Judea and Samaria voted to grant the institution full university status. This move was...
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    will, Antipas' elder brother Archelaus was now to become king of Judea, Idumea and Samaria, while Antipas would rule Galilee and Perea with the lesser function...
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    of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea; Herod's son Philip who became tetrarch of territories north and east of the Jordan River; and Herod's sister Salome I, who...
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    the Herodian Tetrarchy. The Herodian kingdom included the regions of Judea, Samaria, Idumaea, and Galilee, as well as several regions east of the Jordan...
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    David to pay the 3,000 talents (The Wars of the Jews I 2:5). Following the Seleucid siege, Judea faced tough economic times which were magnified by taxes...
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    יִשְׂרָאֵל‎, romanized: Mamleḵeṯ Yīśrāʾēl), Northern Kingdom or Kingdom of Samaria, was an Israelite kingdom in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age, whose...
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    male Hasmonean heir at his Jericho palace. In 6 CE, Rome joined Judea proper, Samaria and Idumea into the Roman province of Judaea. In 44 CE, Rome installed...
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    Herod Archelaus (category Judea (Roman province))
    Ἀρχέλαος, Hērōidēs Archelaos; 23 BC – c. AD 18) was the ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea, including the cities Caesarea and Jaffa, for nine years...
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    Judea proper, Galilee, Peraea, Sharon, and western Samaria constituted a band of nearly continuous Jewish settlement. Central and northern Samaria was...
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    he was endowed with the former territories of Archelaus – Idumea, Judea and Samaria – thus ruling over a territory as vast as the ancient kingdom of Herod...
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    province of Roman Judea: Judea, Samaria, and Idumea. Census of Quirinius: Romans take a census of the new province of Roman Judea, an act unpopular with...
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    Philistia, but especially with the coins of Samaria, which were much more numerous and earlier than those of Judea. This opening of a mint in Judah seems to...
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    Israeli settlement (category Judea and Samaria Area)
    Jerusalem; the Israeli government administers the West Bank as the Judea and Samaria Area, which does not include East Jerusalem. In addition to the settlements...
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    Herodian dynasty (category Judea (Roman province))
    of ethnarch and ruled over the main part of the kingdom: Judea proper, Idumea, and Samaria. He ruled for ten years until 6 CE, when he was "banished...
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    stylistic features, suggests that it may have been minted in Samaria or Philistia, rather than Judea. "coin". The British Museum. Retrieved 2024-09-10. Langdon...
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  • Jews living there, and conquered Transjordan, Samaria, and Idumea (also known as Edom). Aristobulus I was the first Hasmonean priest-king. He defied...
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    only his disciples), he left Judea and departed to Galilee. He had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sy'char, near the field...
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  • Palaestina Prima, which included the historic regions of Philistia, Judea and Samaria with the capital in Caesarea Maritima; Palaestina Secunda, which included...
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  • governor of Samaria, the first of the Israelites to achieve this rank, sometime before Nehemiah's return from exile, and arrival in Judea in 444 BCE....
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    ministry of Jesus were Galilee and Judea, with activities also taking place in surrounding areas such as Perea and Samaria. Other places of interest to scholars...
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    Azotus Caesarea Gaza Samaria This chapter mentions the following places: Azotus Caesarea Aethiopia Gaza Jerusalem Judea Samaria The writer of Acts introduces...
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  • Innocents Herod Archelaus (23 BC–c. AD 18, ruled 4 BC–AD 6), ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea Herod Antipas (born 21 BC, ruled 4 BC–AD 39), tetrarch of...
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    Operation Litani and Operation Law and Order. Gershon also commanded the Judea and Samaria Division during the Second Intifada and oversaw the IDF's Operation...
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    the 1967 war, thinks Israel was right to conquer the West Bank ('Judea and Samaria') and is on record as advocating the expansion of Israeli settlements...
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    with its capital, first in Shechem, then Penuel, Tirzah, and finally Samaria, and ruled by a series of dynasties beginning with Jeroboam; and the southern...
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    contact with the country and people of Samaria". Watkins suggests that the necessity to travel through Samaria was not a matter of geographical necessity...
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